Mathematician of the week: Paul Guldin

June 8, 2008 – 6:26 pm

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Bulmer-Thomas’s article debunks a longstanding error in historiography: Moncula’s 1758 history of mathematics erroneously stated that Pappus’s Theorem had been omitted from the first Latin translation of his work, and consequently …

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